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-----Original Message----- From: Leo Mauler [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 12:57 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: Open Source Values
As for "taking care of everyone": Since when does Microsoft "take care of everyone"? Microsoft does its level best to kill off any alternatives to Microsoft which are free (the closest equivalent to "social programs"). Under Microsoft all highways are toll roads, all cars are metered usage, everyone pays for everything they get.
Exactly. Comparable to 'government control'.
I'm confused. I was told that conservative values called for "user fees" (i.e., metered access, toll roads, "consumption taxes") to replace income taxes.
Now you seem to be claiming that liberals want consumption taxes to replace income taxes, when I can't think of a single liberal who wants a consumption tax to replace an income tax. Or paying for some private company (i.e, Microsoft) to come in and perform the government services you chose to abolish.
===== And I always thought: the very simplest words Must be enough. When I say what things are like Everyone's heart must be torn to shreds. That you'll go down if you don't stand up for yourself Surely you see that.
-- Bertolt Brecht
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